My late mum, God rest her soul, was not a brilliant economic scholar, nor was she even much of a financial whiz as best as I recall.

For example, during an economic pinch, she once disclosed her recovery plan to be this: Secure a hard-money loan on the family home, deposit the loan proceeds in a money market account, and live a life of unfettered luxury and privilege on interest earned.

Sounds simple and easy enough, right?

Mum’s enthusiasm remained steadfast even after we pointed out that the interest rate she would be paying would be around 18 percent, while her savings account might yield .75% in an up year.

Even so, Mum was driven by the urgent need to act quickly, even if her hasty actions were adverse to her own financial health.

Like my mum, President Obama seems to be operating under the wonky assumption that he can borrow the nation out of our financial woes, and pay back the money with chicken feed that distracted liberals overlook on the floors of the U.S. House and Senate.

At least that is how it sounds when President Obama signs a trillion dollar stimulus bill, followed by a $275 billion program to help homeowners avoid responsibility for their own actions, followed by a $643 billion plan to socialize medicine, followed by Lord knows how many further trillions of dollars in bail outs.

Followed by his latest dilly, a fantasy plan to reduce the deficit by half before the end of his first (and, hopefully, last) term.

With all due respect, President Obama, where do you propose to get the funds needed to reduce the deficit, especially if your administration and Congress continue to spend, spend, and spend additional trillions on liberal pet projects that the American people do not need nor want?

Moreover, with the nation heavily in debt, how can the United States respond to unexpected disasters like a repeat of 9/11, a major earthquake in Los Angeles, or several Katrina-like hurricanes?

What if world events cause gasoline prices to explode to, say, $10 a gallon, which would devastate the American economy in short order?

What if third world Mexico unravels into a full-scale civil war and carnage spills across the border, thereby threatening the safety and security of American citizens?

What if Iran develops a nuclear weapon and tries to wipe Israel off the face of the globe, as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested, leading to an all-out war in the Middle East?

What if China refuses to buy more American debt?

What if the rate of inflation jumps to double digits, as it did during the dark deep ages of liberal insanity, AKA the first Carter administration?

Common sense should make it clear that mindless spending caused America to end up in the current mess to begin with.

How, then, can irresponsible and foolish spending on an even grander scale be expected to produce anything but more pain and devastation?

Were she still alive, Mary Quintal Lillpop would make an excellent nominee to be Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration.

Her 2 + 2 =9 mindset would fit right in with the president and leftist loonies in the Congress.

Her only weakness: Mum never cheated on her taxes, and she always told the truth!

With liberal heavy weights like former President Bill Clinton and Shreeker of the House Nancy Pelosi clamoring for a return to the Fairness Doctrine, perhaps we who dwell on the right wing side of the universe should open our tiny minds, just a smidgen, to the concept?

After all, fairness is all about balance and the absence of bias, right?

That being the case, why not “test drive” this fairness notion during a major public event where narrow-minded and ill informed folk are known to congregate?

Why not impose a “Fairness Doctrine” on the Academy Awards show scheduled for this Sunday evening in Hollywood?

Just as an experiment to see how it works out, mind you.

With luminaries like Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie in the running for Oscars, there are bound to be several liberal outbursts to 1) Thank goodness for the arrival of the New Age Messiah, Barack Obama, and or 2) Thank goodness for deliverance from former President George W. Bush, a man of low degree with a drink problem.

So when, say, Sean Penn dedicates his Oscar to the memory of Harvey Milk and pronounces the planet “saved” by the grace of BHO, once the wild applause and cheering subside, the stage and microphone would be turned over to Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood.

These stalwart conservatives would proceed to remind Hollywood and the world that, in just over 30 days in office, Barack Hussein Obama has:

*Escalated the war in Afghanistan with a “surge” of young Americans sent in harm’s way;

*Signed, without reading, an 1,100 page bill that will drown future generations in red ink, but which includes funding for liberal programs that will do nothing to create jobs or stimulate the economy;

*Decided to close GITMO and reverse other anti-terrorist measures, thereby making America more vulnerable to terrorist attacks;

*Nominated tax cheats and others suspected of felonies to important cabinet posts;

*Promoted the official decline of America into the abyss of Marxism.

And the winner for the most egregious failure by the Obama administration after 30+ days is:

Osama bin Laden is still on the loose!

By John W. Lillpop

When the new first broke that Senator Judd Gregg had withdrawn his name from consideration as commerce secretary nominee, my first reaction was that Obama’s web of Corruption had corrupted its first Republican victim.

Alas, my reaction was way off. As it turns out, Senator Gregg withdrew because he finally realized that the Obama stimulus stinker and the proposed hijacking of the 2010 census by the White House are antithetical to the best interests of the American people.

Unlike other cabinet nominees, all Democrats, who “withdrew” because of cheating on their taxes or other alleged criminal acts, Senator Gregg stepped back from the precipice of power because of principle, integrity, and selfless dedication to doing what is best for America.

As reported in the Washington Post, in part:

“New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg has withdrawn his name from consideration as President Obama’s commerce secretary, a major blow to an administration seeking to put a series of Cabinet problems behind it.

‘It became clear to me to me that it would be very difficult day in and day out to serve in this Cabinet,’ Gregg said in a press conference late Thursday. He added that in the days since he was nominated he realized that to be ‘part of a team but not 100 percent with the team’ was an untenable position.

“In his written statement, Gregg cited recent developments regarding the economic stimulus package and the decision to have the next census director report directly to senior White House officials as evidence that he and President Obama were too different ideologically for the pairing to work. ‘This was simply a bridge too far for me,” Gregg said of his decision.’”

Boiled down to simple terms that even Senator Charles Schumer would understand, Senator Gregg went eyeball to eyeball with the truth and, when the dust had settled, the “Chattering Class” had scored a major upset win.

God Bless Senator Gregg for the courage of his convictions and for making personal gain secondary to the national interest.

Several months after assuming power in 1961, President John F. Kennedy authorized the invasion of southwest Cuba by U.S. trained-immigrants exiled from Cuba. The idea was to overturn the communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro.

Ultimately, the operation was a miserable failure and was appropriately named the Bay of Pigs by proponents and opponents alike.

Forty-eight years later, America has elected a president who claims to be the heir apparent to the Kennedy legacy, including Camelot.

Camelot Light, AKA, President Obama, has tried desperately to follow in JFK’s footsteps by failing miserably early in his administration.

Instead of attacking Cuba, for example, Camelot Light attacked the U.S. military by ordering the watering hole for terrorists and terrorists in training at GITMO to be closed.

Thanks to Camelot Light, anxious Americans should be able to sleep more securely knowing that 245 murderous terrorists will eventually be entitled to the same presumption of innocence conferred upon native born citizens, folks who rarely slice another person’s throat from ear to ear because of religious preferences.

But President Obama’s greatest Bay of Pigs moment, thus far, appears to be his collaboration with fellow liberals in the U.S. House and Senate on the outrageous stimulus farce, now approaching $1 trillion dollars.

As someone once famously said, “If it Looks Like a Pig, Squeals like a Pig, and Smells like a Pig, Then it probably IS a Pig!”

Democrats are offering up a real stinker of a pig, this one wallowing in red ink. No exceptions for those who observe Kosher or other dietary constraints.

Apparently, the idea is to bankrupt several future generations of Americans in one fell swoop, thereby installing socialism as the permanent replacement for free market capitalism.

It is all part of Obama’s Grand Scheme to “spread the wealth,” as explained to Joe the Plumber in Ohio.

Unfortunately, the stimulus package that Obama has in mind will spread poverty from sea to shining sea.

Which is fine with Democrats, because impoverished people always vote Democratic. Why not increase the liberal base by doing what liberals do best: Spend foolishly and waste taxpayer money on failed liberal concepts?

After all, if that $trillion dollar pig drags the American economy into the muck of depression, bleeding head liberals can always blame former President George W. Bush–for at least two more generations.

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By John W. Lillpop

Would someone please explain to President Obama that being president and commander-in-chief of the greatest nation on earth is NOT quite the same as midnight basketball or a game of HORSE? Or even PORK?

In basketball, one can push, shove and elbow the opposition out of the way in order to achieve one’s objective. A dominant center needs to get along with just four teammates, but has no need to compromise or work with opponents.

By way of contrast, running the United States of America involves shared responsibility and authority with two co-equal branches of government. At stake are the lives and well being of 300 million Americans and billions of non-Americans all across the globe.

President Obama has put in nearly three weeks of harrowing incompetence, aggravated by insufferable arrogance. On at least two occasions, the novice president has reminded those who do not agree with him that “I won.”

Well of course, you won, President Obama. Unlike many of your fellow Democrats who foolishly claimed that George W. Bush did not win in 2000, Republicans do not deny your electoral triumph.

However, the fact is that all 178 Republicans and 11 Democrats in the U.S. House voted against the stimulus bill. Each and every one was elected or reelected to Congress, and can rightfully claim “I won.”

The same holds true for GOP members of the U.S. Senate who have voiced opposition to the recovery bill and whom are likely to vote against the measure on the floor of the Senate. Each and every one won an election to get where they are.

The presidency is not a metaphor for basketball, sir. You were elected to serve as president, not star center!